SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pierre Trudeau, Tvontario, State Ownership
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What might be the relationship between media ownership and marx"s idea of the camera obscura . (refer to diagram in week 2) whoever owns the media, controls what content is released to the people. They own the lens (they are able to distort the truth) People who control the media, have the ability to produce ideas that we, the people, accept as natural. Media owned by the people through our tax dollars. To be a platform and a voice to the people who own it. Public owned media is also more vested in local talent and shows (eg. Cbc radio began in 1936, cbc tv began in 1952. In the 1970"s, pierre trudeau threatened to shut off funding for public broadcasting, claiming it was littered with separatists. Public media is paid for by the media, therefore, politics at the time influence what is broadcasted. 2015 federal election debates are not aired on the cbc.
